In-reply-to » Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yeah, that’s more clear. 👌

Systems that are on all the time don’t benefit as much from at-rest encryption, anyway.

Right, especially not if it’s “cloud storage”. 😅 (We’re only doing it on our backup servers, which are “real” hardware.)

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I played with nlpodyssey/verbaflow: Neural Language Model for Go today a little bit today…. First I had to download a ~2GB file (the model), then convert that to a format the program verbaflow understands which came out to roughly ~5GB. Then I tried some of the samples in the README. My god, this this is so goddamn awfully slow its like watching paint dry 😱 All just to predict the next few tokens?! 😳 I had a look at the resource utilisation as well as it was trying to do this “work”, using 100% of 1.5 Cores and ~10GB of Memory 😳 Who da fuq actually thinks any of this large language model (LLM) and neural network crap is actually any good or useful? 🤔 Its just garbage 🤣

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In-reply-to » Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I reworked the paragraph about security and improved that sentence. Hopefully it’s a little more clear.

However, the key on the unencrypted partition is only valid for the time it takes to reboot, assuming we reboot as soon as the script completes.

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In-reply-to » Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

@movq@www.uninformativ.de I get it. I wouldn’t set this up for anyone else. Systems that are on all the time don’t benefit as much from at-rest encryption, anyway. This is definitely an interesting solution, however, and it has worked well for me in the past 1-2 weeks. We’ll see how it goes in 1-2 years.

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In-reply-to » Do-nothing scripting: the key to gradual automation – Dan Slimmon

These are my thoughts currently (from IRC):

[10:40:20]  <prologic> Thinking about writing a do nothing framework in Go
[10:41:10]  <prologic> One in which consumers can define their procedure in their own repo
[10:42:07]  <prologic> And users can of the tool can execute any procedure that the binary has imported
[10:42:58]  <prologic> And eventually implement Run() to turn steps from manual ones to automated ones gradually
[14:51:34]  <xuu> Like for mocking against?
[14:51:43]  <xuu> Not sure I follow
[16:03:04]  <prologic> xuu basically for reducing the activation energy to complete otherwise manual procsses
[16:03:14]  <prologic> where you can gradually turn them into automated processes
[16:03:29]  <prologic> https://blog.danslimmon.com/2019/07/15/do-nothing-scripting-the-key-to-gradual-automation/

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I know it’s no longer a point of pride for a server to have a long uptime… so I’ll say I shamefully admit that I just sent the reboot command to a server with an uptime of 1767 days. I shan’t let one go that long again.

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In-reply-to » Rebooting a LUKS Encrypted System Without Typing The Passphrase: https://mckinley.cc/blog/20230526.html

@mckinley@twtxt.net Interesting. For a moment, I thought about using that for our servers at work, but mh, I’d rather not. It’s fine for stuff at home, as you said.

(The way the text is written, you might think that you can specify expiry dates for key slots, because of that “it’s only valid for 30 seconds”. Then I realized that doesn’t make any sense. 😅)

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Browser new tabs showing the news like
“Look at the news! You’re going to download the news and you’re going to like it!”

Faster browser
Memory efficient
Save bandwidth

Meanwhile I have to dig through the settings to turn it off.

Browser updates that reset certain settings are a kick to the face

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In-reply-to » Folks, with each passing minute I feel more and more that I am not the intended audience for this.

I think this might be the first thing I’ve seen that Illumination have done. I bet this is very inline with their other works.

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So BJ’s Wholesale Club… which I purchased a single thing from in like 2020 which included a one-time membership charge, just decided to notify me that it was “upgrading” me to a subscription membership and would begin billing me.

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